farce

The Netflix limited series starring Julianne Moore, Meghann Fahy, Milly Alcock and Kevin Bacon offers a mix of hifalutin ideas, family drama and dark farce.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

To answer that question, you have to meet a couple of the other dramatis personae in this particular farce.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

The snap poll, called when Farage resigned last month from parliament amid scrutiny into his finances, was dismissed by some voters in the eastern constituency of Clacton as a "farce".

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

These lapses and dead spots matter because the movie is a farce that depends on keeping its momentum; instead, it has a stop-start quality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

"The farce of the cold war and the absurd war machine it spawned," he said, "was an ever-growing pathetic joke to me."

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

“This darkest of farces is also frighteningly timely.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025

These actors sparked off each other, in fast-moving farces or quieter character moments.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2023

As viewers of those farces might expect, “Champions” attempts to elicit laughs with vomit, flatulence and body odor.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2023

That was followed in 1962 by A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, an adaptation of farces by ancient Roman playwright Plautus, for which he wrote both music and lyrics.

From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2021

I hope to convince the reader that these things really exist, and are neither illusions nor farces, nor feats of prestidigitation.

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion

You may make a Sauce to these farced Fowls with stew'd Mushrooms toss'd up with Cream; the same may be done with Turkeys, Pheasants, &c.

From The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm by Richard Bradley

The Dublin Troper of the thirteenth century has a number of farced Kyries and Glorias, also a collection of Sequences.

From The Glories of Ireland by P. J. Lennox

The word forced should be read farced, the letter o having evidently dropped down into a box.

From Literary Blunders by Henry Benjamin Wheatley

These may also be stew'd, farced, baked, or put in Soups, or used in Fricassees.

From The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm by Richard Bradley

The enemy's ranks were not forced with Macbeth's followers, but farced or filled up.

From Literary Blunders by Henry Benjamin Wheatley

To many, the daring experiment of farcing what was obviously written as a farce, instead of playing it in the more usual " Oh Lord, here's a classic!" manner, seemed highly successful.

From Time Magazine Archive

To rost Shoulder or Fillet of Veal with farcing herbs.

From The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet Stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex by Hannah Wolley

I have; and if I’m to die respected and honored, if my family is to have any regard for my memory, I’ve got to get out of farcing.

From The Dreamers A Club by John Kendrick Bangs